Bye, Bye Scooter

After being made blindingly obvious upon the signings of Johnny Mac and Alex Gonzalez; shortstop Marco Scutaro is officially on his way out of Toronto to the land of chowdah heads and Massholes known as Boston.

Terms of the deal were just confirmed by SI's Jon Heyman who tweeted:

scutaro just got another raise. just kidding, i guessed low before. sources say he got $12 mil for 2 with #redsox

This comes off the heals of AA coming out and saying he offered a 2 year deal to Scooter who shot it down to go test the open market and try and find a winner which everyone knows he won't find in Toronto.

Scutaro had a solid but unspectacular tenure in Toronto; his first season saw him cover admibaly for GBOAT at third then take over the starting SS job from Scrappy Doo before having a career year in 2009 as the team's starting shortstop. He was a lynchpin in last year's offense when it was working, him and A-Hill were a deadly 1-2 atop the order early on; but during the massive shitdive midway through the year his efforts became less and less noticable.

This of course means some compensation picks but you've got to start wondering how much the Yankees proving once again that payroll can win the World Series how much of a shit teams are gonna give about mortgaging their future for a shot at the title? Boston's clearly gonna sign at least one more Type A to keep up with the Yanks, throwing away yet another pick to who they're departing from. And that's probably gonna fuck AA's efforts over and make him have to draft lower.